I make 'Tadpole Water'

Reporter Catherine Musgrove tries Tadpole Water after experts at Edgehill University say it could be beneficial for health.

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00:00Today I'm trying the TikTok sensation Tadpole Water after experts at Edge Hill University said

00:06it could be quite good for your health. Today I have been talked into by my editor creating

00:13something called Tadpole Water, something that has gone viral on the likes of TikTok.

00:18It's a mixture of chai seeds, warm water and some fresh lemon juice. The idea is that you pour them

00:26all together, which I'll do in a minute, you leave it for a few hours and then you get this

00:32gloopy consistency that you drink, hence Tadpole Water. It's like frog spawn apparently, it sounds

00:38disgusting. But the idea is that the chai seeds, they expand, you drink them, you get in your

00:44water, you get in your fresh lemon. The chai seeds, it can help aid weight loss, so it reduces your

00:52appetite, they're high in fibre and also there's some alleged kind of omega-3 goodness in there.

01:01So I'll put some in now, it's meant to be, this is, I know it's a dessert spoon before anyone

01:05comes for me, it's meant to be a tablespoon. I don't actually have a tablespoon, so dessert spoon

01:10it is. So we're going to put a dessert spoonful of chai seeds in there, into the warm water.

01:16And I will say that I put boiling water with some cold water because we all know that you're

01:22not meant to drink out of the hot water tap. So put the chai seeds in,

01:30give it a swirl around, I mean it already looks revolting and I'm just gonna give that a squeeze.

01:43Okay, so yeah,

01:45that does not look appetising. Oh, I've got a seed in there as well. So what I'm going to do

01:50is I'm going to leave it two or three hours, come back to it and try it and see what it tastes like.

01:58I am not looking forward to it. Okay, so I'm coming back to this drink about two and a half hours later.

02:07You can see that it's separated and I don't know whether it was meant to do that. I also want to

02:14say that the chai seeds went everywhere, so that was a bit of a cleaning up task. But

02:19yeah, let's have a look at the consistency. Yeah, a bit gloopy, it looks so unattractive. I am not

02:31so unattractive. I am not looking forward to drinking this. I'm not sure whether I should

02:36have left it longer. Some of them don't look like they've absorbed as much water as they

02:42should have done. But anyway, I'm going to give it a go now after two and a half hours. So wish

02:47me luck. Okay, so here's the concoction, give it a final spin. I am not looking forward to this at all.

03:02It's not actually as bad as I thought. I put quite a lot of lemon juice in there, so

03:13that is kind of what it tastes like, is like watered down lemon juice. And

03:18the seeds are slimy, but they're not disgustingly slimy. Maybe they would be if I left it a little

03:25bit longer, but actually I don't think I could drink all of that. I could maybe drink

03:31a good few gulps. It's actually better than what I thought,

03:34but will I be giving it again? No, of course I won't. No, no.